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Single Review: Visions Of Trees – Sometimes It Kills/No Flag (Moshi Moshi)
By Marc Samuels | Published on Thursday 27 January 2011
You’d be forgiven for thinking that any electronic pop music made these days has to reference the years 1979-1988 (ie the 80s, their figurative era being neatly summed up by Martin Fry once as “from Mrs Thatcher to acid house”).
Visions Of Trees’ main knob twiddler Joni Juden instead casts his eyes and ears a few years forward (possibly to 1992-1995 and the emergence of the annoyingly named genres of intelligent techno and electronic listening music), creating brilliantly evocative glacial electronica backdrops that are the perfect foil for the astonishingly crystalline vocals of Sara Atalar.
You could call it chillwave, but it’ll still warm your heart. This is exactly the kind of thing people like Björk should be doing, but if the London duo follow up this glistening debut single with an equally impressive album, then you won’t care about anyone else making music like this, as it’s unlikely to be as good. MS
Physical release: 7 Feb
